On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebast...@php.net> wrote: > Am 10.01.2018 um 16:04 schrieb Rasmus Lerdorf: >> Wow, that's rather insulting to the amazing work Dmitry, Nikita, Xinchen >> and others are doing working on the core of PHP. > > I agree. > > IIRC, last time optional type declarations for attributes were discussed > Dmitry optimized/refactored something in the engine that would reduce the > performance hit. > > Do we have a guess at how big that performance hit would be? I, for one, > would gladly trade a couple of percent of performance (considering the > huge gains in performance PHP 7 brought) to be able to use these type > declarations in my code. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
An additional issue is typed references. I believe Bob Weinand did some work in that area; maybe he can share more insight. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
